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October Rains

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Spectacular October rains created a deafening fuss in Cullasaja Gorge.

    


© d091031-012  Cullasaja Falls
  Macon County, North Carolina
  Saturday 31 October 2009

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Gentleman, Start Your Camera

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     Every backroads escapade has a first stop.  Usually identified prior to departure.  It serves as a warp, a pivot away from city affairs, a liberation, a place and time for transformation to life on the road.
     This year, as in others, a little known spot in the headwaters of the French Broad River provided the phone booth for Clark Kent's inexorable metamorphosis.  A spot always friendly to picture taking, soothing to stretched nerves, and portentous for the absorbing backroads ahead.

    

© d090524-006  Rainy Day on River
  North Fork French Broad River
  Transylvania County, North Carolina
  Sunday 24 May 2009

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Splash Away

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Mood with polished dew
Coarse stones rumble
Then splash away
Then splash away
Then splash away…

    

© r0467-02  Starr's Mill
  Fayette County, Georgia
  Sunday 29 September 1991

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Hang Around the Docks

     Giant heavy machines must maneuver at snail speed when parking.  I recently watched the shuttle creep along at an inch per minute seeking a gentle trimmed docking with the space station.  This working tug was backing and gliding cautiously to the left eventually tying for the night in a sheltered niche along the waterfront.  "Hang around the docks at sunrise and sunset,"  I says to any who listen, " and you'll seldom come away emptyhanded."

    

© r0271-04  Parking at Sunset
  Brunswick Harbor
  Glynn County, Georgia
  Tuesday 31 January 1989

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Ararat River

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© r0728-30  Ararat River
  Patrick County, Virginia
  Thursday 9 June 1994

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Dry Streambed

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© r0708-03  Dry Streambed
Snowy Mountain Road
Pendleton County, West Virginia
Friday 3 June 1994

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A River Shot

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© r0716-35  Greenbrier River
Seebert, West Virginia
Pocahontas, County
Sunday 5 June 1994

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Stuck on Spin

   

     As if in a spinning whirlwind, I find myself re-discovering my enormous (way too enormous) archive of recorded music.  (Dammit iTunes, to Hell!)  Yet, it's a fascinating voyage thru decades past and very pleasurable to boot.  Not to forget, however, recent spins around the backroads of rural South Georgia; here's a fine patch of lily pads spinning also in their universe of peaceful tranquility.

© d081229-025  Lily Pond
  Telfair County, Georgia
  Monday 29 December 2008

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Winter Wetlands

     Way down South in the land of Spanish moss and low-gradient streams, a place where I can see more of my most favorite road signs, 'PAVEMENT ENDS AHEAD', than any place else, the winter wetlands stitch a line of little bon-bons across my camera's  heart.

    

© d081229-038  Winter Wetlands
  Wheeler County, Georgia
  Monday 29 December 2008

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Greenbrier Edges

     Much can be said, and much has already been written about the Greenbrier River and Pocahontas County - its frontier history, the timber era, ridge to ridge natural beauty, and the hard life in these rugged mountains.  Yet, the small, the seemingly insignificant, are worthy of notice.  Like the crust of left over snow accenting exposed rocks near the scenic railroad station at Cass.

     Temperature - 29 degrees F
     Wind - 25 miles per hour

    

© d081205-015  River's Edge with Snow
  Cass, West Virginia
  Pocahontas County
  Friday 5 December 2008

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